PB slow start up
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- armed_rob
My Powerbook is so slow starting up it run the time float screen pretty quick. But after that I get a white screen with the rainbow circle in 2-3 minutes...
Come on... you used to be better than that!
What 2 do? Clean up or?
- ********0
do you have fonts in the system/libary/fonts folder?
if so, move them, if not.. make a clean install.. just gave my iMac one and it runs soooooo smoooth again.
- armed_rob0
only got the sytem fonts in that folder (28 fonts).
That cant be it?I use fontbook is that good or bad, im thinking about swiching to suitcase?
Thanx
- zaven0
I have the same problem here.
actually i think this started to happen after installing os X 10.3.7
please help.
- tannerc0
my powerbook , of 8 months has been starting ridiculous slow like this,too...Then this evening after i burnd a dvd...i flipped it 'on'..errr...waited..and ...im still waiting
its fw 'd to my g5..but...im kinda freaking.
- spongebob0
buy a pc.
- jimeeboy510
im using a pb for work I've only had it for a week. Since the latest osx update, its been buggy as hell too.
- armed_rob0
that freaking right! It after the last update...!
Now I find myself just clapping the thing down insted of dlosing down...
- armed_rob0
spongebob welcome to "Ignore list"... I dont like PC's and never in my life will I work on one again.
- rasp0
off track, but we installed the new update and mearly all of the design team here are having problems. especially slowing down and losing work! :(
- rasp0
nearly - not mearly
- armed_rob0
any way to go back to before the update?
- tuig0
THE DOWN GRADE
ITS TIME FOR THE HICKORY SWITCH.
technoglogy is the devil and electricity its blooood;
---------bender...
- rise0
heh, my pb always does this shit, thats why I never restart it.
- welded0
designerror already suggested checking the system font library, but check your users' library as well. I've become a firm believer in font management since discovering the difference it can make.
- rise0
so, why no fonts in the system/lib/fonts ?
i mean, even on the install theres the system originals, are you saying not even those?
- welded0
Keep the system folder as-is and move project specific fonts in and out of the user library when needed. It's been my experience that this greatly influences boot up time. I can't say why, but in my case where I had a couple hundred fonts it was slow to boot. When I moved them out, it sped up.
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- ocos0
Fonts - keep them anywhere you like and use suitcase to activate them and launch it yourself if you have alot of fonts (thousands), if it is a startup item it will slow boot time......Yeah dont touch the system fonts....
- have you repaired the disk permissions?
- maybe run cocktail or onyx to clean the system / user cache.
If all else fails backup & clean install.....do not do a archive and install....
Ive always installed the OS updates as soon as they have come out and only had one major problem, which trouble shooting fixed....
PC = scary
- myobie0
virex is the devil, so don't install it...if you have, uninstall it (run the uninstall on the disk image)...
font's are the devil, keep track of em...
look in your startup folder in your library and your startup items in system preferences, if there is alot of stuff starting up, then it will take alot of time...